Russia is doing a little experiment.
What are your thoughts on this? What can Russian people do to circumvent this kind of censorship? As long as the wires aren't physically disconnected, people will still be able to access the broader internet through TOR or a VPN, but most people don't use TOR so this still has a massive effect on these people.
In the event that somehow the physical wires were disconnected, how would Russians be able to access the global internet? Mesh nets? Satellites?
If it is the same technology used by Maduro in Venezuela, you can still use
Tor if you stick to
obfuscated bridges (obfs4).
A full airgap is what they have in North Korea, they have a national LAN and they copy the things they approve from the internet in. Only in that case, your idea would be required. In the meantime, its probably the same thing used here, Iran and China, or a variant of. A giant firewall with deep packet inspection.
Obfuscation is important, and most VPN software doesn't do that and is easy to spot. In China people get visits if they use this...
I think both satellites and openmesh technology would help. I'm curious to see how the
SpaceX internet by satellite project results. Google also is using balloons to achieve the same.
